Marching into March

On March 8th, we met our friend Megan from Athens on 4th at the zoo.  She really wanted to spend some time with Nathan.  We had a good day.

On March 11th, I took Nathan to the zoo to see the lion cubs again.  After seeing the cubs I took him to the desert museum.  We saw the raptor show and some baby hummingbirds.

Nathan had a bad day at school on 3/12.  He got wrote up for his behavior.  He spit in another kid's food.  I asked him why and he said he is mean to the other kids because they do no want to play with him.  I told him that is not the way to get them to play with him.  I told him if he is nice to them then they will be nice to him. I reminded him that these kids have been in class together for awhile, but he is newer to the class so they are still getting to know him.  His teacher seemed pretty concerned about his behavior and so I am afraid that if he does not improve then they will eventually kick him out. She says he just does not do very well in the larger class size because he always wants attention.  

Nathan had a better day at school on Friday, 3/14.  Of course there were fewer kids there that day. Next week is spring break and he will be out of the school the following Monday, too.  I hope that he behaves in class once he returns.  After school I took some pictures of Nathan for St Patty's Day coming up.

We had a long, interesting day yesterday, 3/15.  We drove 4 hours over to El Centro, CA to see the blue angels air show.  We got there and there were supposed to be ATM machines, but there were not any.  We did not bring much cash with us and most of the places only accepted cash, including the food vendors.  The show itself was slow and boring at times.  There were many times when no planes were in the air and I do not remember it being that way at the thunderbird show here in Tucson a couple of years ago.  The blue angel part was pretty cool.  They also did a reenactment with a Japanese plane and the Pearl Harbor bombing.  They also had a star wars theme going with many people dressed up the part to take pictures with them.  Getting out of the base took like an hour and a half.  For being a military base, they were not very efficient.  They made us drive like 3/4 around the base just to get out.  For the longest time we just sat there trying to get out of the parking lot.  We did see a couple of owls on the way out.  They were just watching the cars drive by.  We got home around 10:00 pm.  Honestly, I don't think we would go back to that air show again.  It was cool to see the blue angels, but I liked the thunderbird air show here in Tucson a couple of years ago better. They will be having one again next month so we plan to go to that.

Tomorrow is St Patty's Day.  Nathan and I are going to the zoo.  The whole lion family is supposed to be out, including the dad.  After that we are supposed to go to the childrens museum.  Then I need to make our corned beef and cabbage for dinner!

Wednesday Lisa and Connor will be coming to visit for a week and a half.